Young Photographers’ Opening Shots
For the January 2010 issue of Blueprint, our Opening Shot was provided by Chris Greenaway, a third year photography student at Winchester School of Art. Blueprint’s art director Patrick Myles set a brief asking the students to capture strange, new or critical aspects of the built environment. Presented here are the series of photographs taken by the students with an explanation of their shot.
Achtung! Erik Spiekermann
In prehistoric times, works of art were representations of things essential to survival: animals, weapons, fire and nature. Art started as cult; it was magic. Images of architecture have gone through a similar process: the more we look at buildings, the more their ‘exhibition value’, as Walter Benjamin called it, comes to the foreground and [...]
The New Photourbanism
As slideshows, audio and video clips are integrated with photography on the internet, and documentarians become more interested in the built environment, photographer David Cowlard looks at the effect this could have on the representation of architecture
The expansion of digital imagery and electronic media is transforming the world of publishing. As photographers and news organisations start [...]
Exhibition Review: Richard Bryant, Greater London
Architectural photographer Richard Bryant offers his perspective of London in a photographic exhibition at Somerset House. Moving from the ‘bucolic West to the developing East’, the selection of images works its way across London, within the confines of Somerset House’s grandiose Terrace Rooms.
This particular photo essay of his native city was commissioned by a New [...]
Exhibition review: Luisa Lambri
It’s looking like the 101-year-old Oscar Niemeyer won’t get the chance to put a final flourish to his career by adding a new project, Plaza of Sovereignty, to his masterwork, Brasilia. Yet if you want a reminder of the architect’s past brilliance, then it is worth looking at a collection of new work by Italian [...]
Philippe Starck: From Sex to Space
At this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, Blueprint’s acting editor Tim Abrahams interviewed Philippe Starck about his new furniture for Cassina. The range, entitled the Privé Collection, is designed to accommodate and facilitate sex. A slightly truncated version of the interview appears below.
Philipe Starck (Ph.S): You want me to explain it? You know, [...]
